I just watched Heavy Metal 2000. I liked the first one more, but this one was okay.
What isn't okay is that the magazine apparently went out of business in June of this year. Apparently they went woke, and now they've gone broke.
Yet another part of history is gone thanks to these fuckers. Their crusade against hot babes knows no end.
I'm surprised they lasted this long, woke or not. I'm assuming the magazine went stale long before they went broke and desperately got woke.
What bothers me is that pop culture can be a bit of a monoculture; the clean, colorful, eye-popping but not bad art style on every other notable Steam release. Off the top of my head, there's no full-3D video game that nails that epic post-romantic painted look, although thankfully enough on the periphery. Just look at this Frank Frazetta cover from a similar magazine c. 1980. It still holds up 4 decades later with less than a hint of the 80s/90s flavored corniness in related media (corniness itself not always a bad thing). My point is that I hope this grandiose art movement has a renaissance in movies and games so these objectively good past works don't get memory-holed.
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